The Sun. — London, England, 1826-10-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench appears to have treated the case of Mr, Atchdall as that Court is in the habit, we believe, of dealing with all cases in which the charge nude appears to it to be groundless. If a man is arrested for a debt which he does not appear to owe, the. Court, or any one of the Judges, at Chambers, will order him to be discharged upon what is called common, or nominal; bail ; or if a man is accused of an offence, of which, either by affidavits or otherwise, he can show himself most pro bably to be innocent, a Judge will, as in this case, or der his discharge upon his own recognizance. This authority provides a very wholesome check over the power, as well as the mistakes and Dais-judgments of sliagistrates, and, as it is uniformly exercised in favour of the liberty of the subject, calls for the. support of all who know how often those mistakes occur, and who consider what a frightful oppression would often he inflicted were there no such poWer as this to re strain its abuse. Besides, there are many cases where it is fit .that this iMportant discretion should be lodged in wiser heads than those which are placed upon the shoulders of mere Justices of the Peace. In many cases •of logs of life, to which the law of necessity looks with Mote than ordinary anxiety and caution, it is often of great consequence, both to parties accused, and to the cause of public justice, that the proceed ings of IVlegistrates should be controulled by the wis , dont Of those who can look calmly and dispassionately at a case, uninfluenced by, the temporary feelings and circumstances by which it is often at first surrounded. it cannot be denied, however, that the power in ques tion may, and doubtless does, in some few instances, degenerate into abuse, and defeat the very object it has in vise.. The Judge, by seeing the evidence o nly in the shape. of depositions,. loses the advantage o f judging of the tone, the temper, and manner of those who give it, and is open to be influenced by affidavits on the opposite side ; in which often zeal, and some times design, supplies, as facts, circumstances which have no existence, or gives a colour to others which, rightly viewed, they will not bear. We know of no Accusations which require more caution than such as those of which' the person here alluded to has been charged. The facility with which such charges are made, the ,difficulty with which they are rebutted, and the strong and almost laudable prejudices which they excite, are all circumstances which tiniformly throw great difficulty and doubt about theM, and are reasons why the accused should have every protection which calm, deliberate wisdom , can afford. Instead, there fore, of finding fault, as some persons have done, with the course which haS been taken upon this occasion, it is fair to presume that it has been the result of a staid and sober judgment, and as furnishing a striking instance of that security . and protection which the Judges of this supreme criminal Court or the king dom furnish against time errors and mistakes of those who are too often. what they are, because they are fit for nothing else. But should it, on the other hand, turn out to he the case, as some of the papers inti mates but which cannot persuade ourselves to be lieve, that there has been any trick in the proceeding, or that time .fridge has been imposed upon, then we must admit that the genera! observationmi we have been trik . , , ;. ing . will,not be at all applicable to this particular cane which, if that he so, will, we trust, be probed to the bottom in 'A its bearings. The prosecutor, at all events, seeins to have been no party to what has taken place. He will therefore, of cowrie, follow up, this matter, and prefer his bill at the Westminster Sessions, which commence on the 19th inst. Should this charge be entertained by the Grand:jury, and time ac cused be forthcoming to answer time indictment, all will be well ; but should .it turn out otherwise, it is not improbable that it will be one of the first subjects wind) will come before the new Parliament, which will, among other things, have to appoint a Standing Committee, to which such subjects necessarily' he long. —Morning 'Hernia. . . Mei) Buonaparte described ris as " a nation of shop-keepess," some silly people took it as a great affront, w hile the majority, with mil better reason, saw in the sarcaso an unwilling compliment and Ito,. mage to our commatial greatness. Had he lived to witness, the two last years of our national history, and had described us iii « a nation of swindlers," ingenuity would have been somewhat taxed to evade and stave off' the apparent truth and keenness of the censure. it is hard, irideed, that a whole nation should stiffer for the. faults and cupidity of the ; but it would be impossible, we dmink, for any, solier-minded marl to view the list we published of the various Babble Frauds which have arisen during that tint° (imperfect as it'neeessasily was), -and to view the immense soma Mit of Which people have been plundered by means of them, and.not admit that our national eharacter roust h a ve seriously suffered in the eyes of all calm and rea sonable lookers-on upon the occasion. , Every day is mare ,a n sl more developing the craft and, time licartlese ness;*ithobich the system of phinder has been tied on ; and the titmice of persons hitherto respect able in the connslercial world are continually coming forth tarred amid feathered in all the disgrace which neces sarily b e longs to the miserable state of' uncer tainty, which poison tosa's character between the 1111.. enviable alternative a krutve or fool. There are persons who :Tort as a favourite. theory, that all mankind are More or less insane ; and the adoption of this theory is, perhaps, the most charitable way of accounting for the figure in which many p'eramis hitherto accounted honest have distinguished themselves upon this occa sion. 'There has, however, been too ranch method in t h e madness of most of therm, to admit even of this exc use. A man who wildly lissipates his ownpro- perty without any prospect, of an adequate return, may be a subject for Bethlem ; but those who 1110/0 been m aking ticks and drakes of the property of others, ' themselves, an d w h o h ave for the , purpose of enriching flinched from investigation, are fitter subjects for iron risfilem thine for strait waistcoats. :ch ey may wish to b e shouslit mad, but mankind will be more apt to think :hem. rogues. — Aid . Our readers may remember a report of a ease at the Middl ese x Oessiows abo ut a year ago, according .t o which Mr. ChC l I _es requested a verdict against * • wed from the heavy fees his client, that be pug ie sa tal Yesterda y , a case of' the same payable on an acquit . p 41111 S f i o ns. A I. eft' description occurred at the same essf entmant, and sub having succeeded in convicting a de jecting him to a fine of 13s. was called upon to pay the customary fees, twelve shillings for the Ju r y , and five shillings for the Crier. He aillealed to the Chairman, :who told him, for leis consolation, that mn might be astaitied for non-payment, but that if the demand was not , correct, --he might indict the officer for extortion: The Chairman told him, moreover, that. if, instead of coming into that Court, he had staid at home, he wiauld have saved his time, and avoided the demand." If the defendant had been ac quitted, he would have been wont, off than he was under the verdict of conviction, This gives an odd idea of English justice. The Chairman , it would appear, thought that this was 'all right, and he only wished that the plaintiff would :make the expence it had cast him as public as possible, to deter persons from bringing trumpery prosecutions. But may, not another consequence result from the publicity of such a way of doing justice ? The same circumstances which may deter persons from proSecuting, may en courage other persona to , give annoyance to their fel low-citizens. In this case, ,be it remarked, the evil is not impunity, but the punishment of the injured party. 1 The latter retires ..from the Court with . the laugh against him : the defendant, on the other hand, has the satiafietion of haVing hot 'merely Annoyed his opponent, but added to the annoyance, by punishing him in .Court. And yet, absurd as the above and many other parts of our judicial procedure appear, we have seen, from what has been the consequence of several recent changes, that the remedy is often almost as bad as the disease. For instance, the payment of charges to proseeutors and witnesses has entailed a taxation on the country, under the name of county rates, of a most appalling magnitude. But the great vice of English Legislation is this endless tinkering. Intent only on remedying an inconvenience, we: often see a greater inconvenience produced by the remedy. Our way of going to work serves only, us Lord Bacon observed, to render the provisions of the law, " com plicated and perplexed ; it provides a remedy for 'the case which presses; but violates the general body of the law.".--Moiwing chronicle. From 1773 to 1815 ; a period of 42 years, England en joyed the practical benefit of a free trade in corn. Before the former of 'the above years, she had been for the most part an exporting country, with a scanty population in pro portion to the fertility of Iser. soil. After 1773 a dirty of 24 , 5. 3d. per quarter was imposed on foreign wheat im ported, so long as the price in the British market remained under 445. When the article reached 445., but did not exceed 48s. ' a low duty of 2s. 6d. was made payable; and when the quarter of wheat rose to 485., that duty of 2s. (id., moderate though it may have been, was reduced to 6d. only. The low duties always remaining the same, the conditions under which they became chargeable -were successively varied. In 1791, the duty of 244. ad. attach ed until wheat rose to 501., and 2s. 6d. was then payable until the 'quarter reached Ms. In 1804, SOs. was set aside for 60s;, and Ms. for 635.; but as wheat was al- Most invariably at a price which brought the two, lower rates of duty into operation ; the country, as we set out with observing, enjoyed a free trade in corn.— These statements are drawn from Mr. Whitmore's pam phlet, recently published; on the corn question, in the shape of a Letter to the Electors of Bridgenorth. It is a clear and able production, giving, not merely the substance of the recognized argument against the continuance of these pernicious corn-laws, but adding many sound and forcible reflections on the part of the author, and administering, in our judgment, a valuable accession of good sense and knowledge to the common stock of, intelligence on a sub ject which will one day, we trust, be decided on grounds not wholly suggested by intemperance or gratuitous alarm with respect to their influence on the landlords of England. The pithy view of the prohibitory corn laws is, that they were, in 1815, an innovation upon the old policy of England; that the forty-two years preceding their en actment, were those in which the commercial and agricul tural interests advanced and flourished more conspicuously thrum at any period before or since; and that if the time were to be named during which our " landed interest" hams, suffered more severe vicissitudes, and been rucked by more terrible chastisements then ever, it would lam .that wherein the same landed interest hums experienced whatever protection was to he found in a smeremptory ex clusion of. foreign corn. Thin, we repeat,is a summary of the whole argument, so far es the advocates of the prohi bitory system, whether from a dislike of innovation, or from selfish anxiety, are concerned-1. That the prohibi tion is of modern date—just 11 years' standing, andno more. 2. That those 11 years have been . the most dis astrous that ever occurred to the landed gentlemen of England. Had the fact been otherwise, it would indeed have made no difference in our estimate of this .important queition, because time welfare of the landlords, could it be possible to separate it altogether from that of the nation at , large, would not deserve to be considered even a momen tart obstacle to a measure called for by the necessities of so many millions. We quote from Mr. Whitmore the following passage, because it seem to contain a strong general foundation for the most decisive body of reasoning which time subject of the Corn Laws admits It is thus clear, that time present system, Which consists of prohibition to impnrt foreign corn, except at prices rarely obtained, and which may, in truth, be considered as those of scarcity, is an innovation upon the Fortner system of our corn law.. It remains to be seen bow far this innovation is or, is not a beneficial One.— But first let us pause, and consider whether there ever was a pe riod in the history of this or any other country exhibiting a greater degree of prosperity than Great Britain enjoyed during 42 years I have mentioned. When has capital so increased ?—when have manufact UM so Inuit i plied ?.---when has a revenue, and a revenue, too, paid with equal ease tp the people, been so aug mented?—when have tt midis of art, roads, bridges, canals, har bours, been constructed With equal facility ?--wlien iats military glory and polifieal aseendancy beeit carried to so high a pitch?* maul when, (and that is 114 rhapS the main point in the present in ttiry,) when has agriculture flourished to a similar extent? Look at the wastes enclesed—at the draining 4:e:tett—consider the vast improvements which have Wien, place in husbandry, and calculate t h e prodigious augmentation areas, and then say whether or not this was a period of great and national prosperity. 1 wish not to carry' my argument too far, snit I will admit that an impedituent to im pert corn arose in the later years of the late war, from its extent and its peculiar features, 1 will admit, that this, and time vast. 'atiops of the etirreney, will explain, in some measure, the high price of agricultural produce, and the eousequent high rents: but, making every deduction on these hearts, I urn clearly of opinion that the period I have named was tine of great agricultural pros perity, and this prosperity was in no measure owing to the laws respecting the admission of foreign corn : it sprung from that source from whew* alone real agrieuitural prosperity tau spring, nudely, the healthy and prosperous state of the other interests of time countryss-from increasing capital and augmenting population. But it is time to consider the effects of the present laW. Time principle of time law passed its 1915 was, that alt intercourse with foreign countries in grain should cease, unless the 'prices rose, so high as to evince the necessity of foreign supply ; that the trade in corn should riot be, as it had been heretofore, the rule, hut the exception ; that the home demand shoold, except in extraordinary cases, be. supplied by the Immune produce. 1Now„ this it had been. found (torrid only be accomplished by the existence of high prices ; and, notwithatareling the parade of patriotism then put forth by time advocates of this system, it was obvious that high prices and high rents were the objects sought to be obtained by this law. NeVer, perhaps, in an enlightened country, was an order of things established more at variance with common seas and sound Policy than the one introduced by this law. It established a TOO. nopoly, but,faihal in producing that essential ingredient of all num uolmbem, u limitation of quantity of the article monopolised,.-.-an ntniasion which would be etterly destructive of any monopoly, but "Molt, as I shall endeavour to show, was pre-eminently absurd and el i e l irs , in the canuneree of gain. Practical men. will surely allow necessity of such liMitation. The object Of monopoly is to raise time price of a given article beyond the rate at which it would he sold without it. Pricer hOwever, is regulated by the demand rind time supply. It is ob vious that, in order to realize y it o 4 y r ot tle , et t , w y l e a rt w u v u ot is i t not allow the supply to excee d . time demand ; meat. rie„ 14,4 f e i a l r . l pass will he e ff ectual for its eeeomplish °radical men eann e ot, " al y, it has been proved, that a very trifling excess of th over the demand will effect it. I . say i)ropositio, 04 ;secede to the truth of this obvious chants destroyed► wr it it a ti ways acted upon. The Dutch mer chants of the spices grown in the Eastern Archipelago, in ortleil the 11,1:10undooliv its t 'll e te' a ti d s v h a n n i ta ol g ig e e o rs f of the same course. At the period of agricultural. (lista % in 182 . 1 r 1822, a proposition was made at (me' of time county meed o 1) 11 3 held generally at that period, destroy, in some way or other, a portion the surplus produce then in the farmers' hands. to 1 utve no see a ollection how and I cannot be suppostd an'isaiwivlaptreolfregod t ei l rg b u e tr e r i pr i ot i eetriu lj g ; .but I have no hesitation in aayino, that if it had been possible, it was a more sensible pro- position than thole commonly 'locipted at such meetings:--more sensible, at least, if the monopoly system was to be preserved. if I were an advocate for its continuance, I should be most anxious to see a burning clause added to' the lair, that should consign to the flames the exteas, when the supply exceeded the demand, be. cause in that way only can I seethe possibility of the object being attained. The distress of the period I have alluded to *is, if not, produced, fearfully' aggravated by the system eatablished,by that law; and if it be allowed to continue in existence, it is, ithink, obvious, we OA again, at.no distant period, rbe exposed to lar calamity. The state doctors have, in truth, thrown their pa,: tient, the agriculturist, into a state much resembling an ague, sub ject to hot and cold fits, and, in mockery, they miscall it protec tion,--4 fatal misnomer, which, carrying With it, as it does, the force of an argument, has done more mischief to 'the world than any other single word ever usel Protection forsooth ! can that be protection which strips the industrious farmer of hie.hard.:earned capital? can that. be protection which exposes the mass of the people to famine? can that be a beneficial system which de ranges the trade of the whole world, and exposes to hazard the wealth, the poWer, the importance in the scale of nations of this, with all its faults, the most virtuous and the most blessed of any country in existence? But I have said this abortive attempt at monopoly is more injurious in the corn trade than in any other. It is so, bemuse corn is in itself in a great measure the regulator of its own cast; a high price of corn leads to high rents, high tithes, high rate of labour, high poor-rates; it demands more ca pital' to stock a farm. All the various charges incurred by the farmer are, as all farmers know, augmented by the price of corn continuing high for a period of two or three consecutive years.— This extra expence has been incurred previous to the fall in price occurring consequent upon an abundant harvest ; it cannot be checked at once, and even if it could, there is nothing wherewith to indemnify the farmer for tie money already expended in pro dueing his crops. He calculated upon 'a continuance of high 'price ; his agreements of various kinds were contingent upon it— they are binding upon him, though the data upon which he en tered into them ore totally changed. The consequence of which is, that one season of agricultural distress sweeps off num bers of the poorer farmers, and that if it continue beyond that period, as it most commonly does when it once begins, the whole farming body feels it most severely. It cannot be too often repeated, that great fluctuations in price are injurious to no interest more than to the agricultural. A Monopoly iu any other article, if it fail, is pmduOtive of in jury to the persons engaged in its production; but they have the power of cor.trol ; they can cease to produce until the excess is worked off; nor does the high or low price of the produce affect, as in the' case of the farmer, the pricy of labour and the other charges incident to such production. If a manufacturer of cloth or hats imam a monopoly of any given markets, and that, owing either to competition or false calculation, the market is overstocked, all he has to do is to limit his manufacture until the excess is worked off, and prices Lave attained their former level. But the farmer cannot do this, or at least he cannot do it with any thing like the same facility; his produce depends upon seasons, over which holm no control ; his capital must be employed ; it con sists in part of live stock, which must tie fed whether they 'end to further production or not. Ile has engagements to meet, which necessitate a produce, however low it may be soltl, and the first ef . feet a change from low to high price, is a greater and not a lessened growth of grain. It is iu thii way the poer farmer tries to meet his engagements, be finds himself on the brink of ruin, he disre gards the common maxims of prudence, and ho breaks throng's all his covenants to save himself and his family from being precipi tated from the respectable.'station of an English farmer into the class below him, if not into the abject condition of a pauper." Yet urn we .Wrong, perhaps, in troubling 'our readers and filling our coluMns with reasonings on this vital sub ject, since, while we write, it may have, been already settled, that in the approaching conflict on the corn laws, Ministers shall adopt ..a course more characteristic of the ascendancy of sordid and selfish passions over little minds, than of the sensibility of an enlightened and patriotic spi rit to the claims of 'justice and political manhood. It is rumoured that the Government of this country will be actually base enough to shirk the corn question—even as, from equally discreditable • motives, they have skulked from another great public question—the dread of losing their places: 'The corn question is not, as the report says, to he made a Ministerial question I , We live in degrad litletit:festioe it r i l' i l l i x e w af e e th i e s r past when M r i e ni o ste , r h w t 11: 0 claw tarried for, the good of the country, avid of staldeg his office on the truth or error of his policy. The old lan guage of a British Minister was, " I 'feel this mea sure to be right, and I will carry it or resign." The language.of a modern _statesman is marvellously opposite:. —" I am in a comfortable office ; I will let the Parliament rule the kingdom as it likes; but for my part I will keep my office." This vi:tual abdication of the duties of Go vernment, this. conversion of an effective employment into a sinecure, this transfer of responsibility, and retention of patronage and profit, are unworthy . of beings in the form of man. • Not make a. great question a ministerial question ; Why, if the influence of the Crown be the real power by which the business of the' State is known to be carried on, it becomes the bounden duty of Ministers to make every question a " ministerial question." There must be a right and wrong upon such matters as Emancipation and the Corn Laws. If a Cabinet be not capable of discriminating between them, it is imbecile and utterly contemptible. —lf, seeing where the truth lies, a Cabinet Minis ter fails to enforce it, from ie fear of compro mising his own vile place, he is, morally speaking, impeachable, and ought to be capitally punished. But, long as these' men have held their offices, they live, as one may term it, from hand to mouth . iere -is no fund of forecast or science among them. Whey the sky lowers, they trust to Providence to navigate the vessel, and to bring her, as well us her lubberly crew, into harbour; but regularly, when there is any danger near, they lash the rud der and drift before the wind. One leading Minister, we have been informed, never t h ought grave l y - about admit ting foreign corn within these few weeks, until ten minutes before he signed the order in Councilto, sanction it. Now, We take - for granted, that. his Lordship will let the landed interest govern both the . Empire and the Government, by suffering the landlords to do what they please with. the Corn Bill,—s, degree of indulgence quite as reasonable as it would be to allow a band of refractory weavers to make what laws in their wisdom and virtue they might think 'proper, for the destruction of power looms, a minimum rate of journeymen's wages, and a maximum price of corn, "reef, and beer.—Times. , , I . at all be m ule to the presence of the officer, who hold been ap pointed by the Lord Mayor for the purpose of preventing any breath &the peace. After his Lordship should bind over the parties; an indictment would he preferred against every one of them. Mr. Alley rejoiced to see his learned friend, Mr. Adolphus, engaged upon this occasion, as if theirtwo clients were pitted against each other, the case probably would not come ton speedy and amicable a termination.—(A laugh.) Mr. Adolphus was of opinion that his learned friend had gal loped a great deal too fast in his 'statement of what had taken place. There was no evidence whatever, he was assured, of riot, Mr. Wilks had no right to file affidavits at the Justice-room. In a case of this kind, be was hound to produce evidence, and not to come forward with affidavits. The fact was, from all that he bad heard, he was justified in calling the entry a peaceable entry, and not a violent or forcible one. With respect to the application of Mr. Wilks to have Mr. Verbeke's servant turned out of the house, the Lord Mayor had no such power. The Loan Mason—sli the violent possession of the premises be illegal and improper, surely the person holding possession, under such' circumstances, can be removed. Mr. Adolphus—Ay, after a decision to that effect by a jury. Mr. Alley—The man is certainly not justified in remaining in possession. All we require is, that he do quit the house, and that those gentlemen do find bail to answer at the sessions. Mr. Adolphus Indeed he will not quit the house. We have got an agreement in our possession, signed by Mr. Wilke, in which he admits the propriety of keeping the officer iu the house, for the sake of securing the public peace. Mr. Alley said, that that stipulation had been made upon a cer tain condition, which had never been performed. Mr. Wilke was not at all disposed to attain reparation by violence. He wished that every thing should be done in a quiet and peaceable man ner. With respect to the production of the affitlavits,'he allowed that they ought not to be admitted under' circumstances of this descriptions Mr. Nobler said, that in taking notes of what had occurred on a former day, he bad never once thought of referring to the affida vits which had been produced. The Loan MAYOR—I mentioned before, upon hearing the charges, that I considered that a violent possession had been taken, which could not be defended in a court of justice, and that a riot had taken place. . Mr. Adolphus--if your Lordship thinks so, thedefenelant must enter into recognizances to appear at the sessions; but you cannot interfere with the man who is in possession. 1 Mr.. Alley—All I want is, that the Lord Mayor will recommend 1 to the man to leave the premises quietly. The I onn AIATOR said, that he could not take upon him self to interfere. The presence of that man involved a ques• Lion of law with which a magistrate would not be justified in interfering. Mr. Adolphus—For God's sake, Mr. Alley, don't say anything more about Mr. Wilks's quiet and peaceable demeanour. I don't wish to say any thing about that disposition to peace and quietness which you ascribe to your client, for I wish to act upon Tristram Shandy's principle. In my journey through life, I would not hurt the hair even of a jackass on the road.—(Laughter.) . Mr. Alley—l have no acquaintance with Mr. Wilke; I have had no communication with him until this day ; and when I spoke of him, I spoke from my impression of his manner in addressing me, and certainly he showed a great disposition to quietness. Mr. Adolphus—Oh I dare say he did—to you.—(Laughter.) The Loan MAYOR—The conduct of Mr. Verbeke appeais to me to have been calculated to do great public mischief. Whatever may be his right in the case, he has taken means of possessing him self of the right in a way that may be turned to very bad puts. poses. It is my opinion certainly, that he, and those who ac companied bins to Mr. Wilka's house, must find bail. Mr. Alley—l am glad that my learned friend and I have been employed on this occasion. It has been one good effect of that arrangement that we have got. through this business without tra velling into partnership accounts, or meddling with any other question. . . Mr. Adolphus—Yes ; and we have our names in the newspapers too. This plan of getting business before the public, is what per sons ought to avail themselves of, for the purpose of saving elec tion expences. The Loan Mevon then directed Mr. Verbeke, his brother, Mr. Corrie, and one. or two others who assisted those gentlemen in getting possession of Mr. Wilke's house, to attend next day with securities. A friend of Mr. Wilke s---'There is Dr. Mitchell ; he is to find bail as well as the rest ; he was amongst the rioters. Mr. Alley—Certainly the doctor must find bail too. Mr. Verbeke—Dr. Mitchell ! There is not a tittle of evidence against him ; why would you include him ? Dr. Mitchell—No; I was not in the house at all ; I trust that you will not put me to expencelor nothing. There is no pretence for saying that I was present. Mr. Wilke, sen. (uncle to the complainant).--The doctor cer tainly assisted in the riot, although he was not in the house. Mr. Alley—Yes ; it appears that Dr. Mitchell banded in a sword to Mrs Verbeke's party. That was very materially assist ing in my opinion. Mr. Verbeke—There is not w tittle ,of evidence against Dr. Mitchell ; and I refer to the chief clerk's notes to prove it. Mr. nobler, in referring to the evidence of which he had taken notes, did not see the name of Dr. Mitchell amongst those who stood occulted, but there were two persons alluded to whose names did not appear. Mr. Alley—lt will be only putting us to the trouble of bringing forward cur evidence again. Dr. Mitchell—ls it possible that you can have anyllea of in dicting me ? Mr. Verbeke—Why, Mr. Wilke has included Mr. William Clark in his charge of conspiracy against him. Mr. Clark expressed some surprise at this information, but seemed not to have much dread of the consequences. The LORD NATOR—•-He lies included the Editor of The Times also in time charge. Mr. Corrie requested, that as he was already hound over in the burn of 2001. to appear at the Sessions, on a complaint arising out of the same circumstances, no further security should be de manded,' tpwroaesecidnTwthhintlft.:efitplsoi The Loan MAYOR ordered a ll the defendants, with the excels; tion of Dr. Mitchell, to produce hail this day. BOW-STREET.—It was understood in the course of yestev day, that Mr. Charles Edward Grindell and .James Hunter, against whom our readers will remember a warrant for assault on the person of Mrs. Jane Grindell, wife of one of the parties, hail been issued, were brought to town in custody of Ledbeater, one of the o ffi cers of this establishment. On inquiry, we found that the report was correct. Immediately after the termination of the investigation on Friday when Stiuton and Cochran were ordered to find bail on the same charge, the above named o ffi cer was despatched to Tuubriolge in th e warrant had repaired, with Mr. Grindell, sen., Wells, to which plan it was ascertained the other parties included furced.from his house with the intention of placing him in a wborn they lu natic asylum in that place. Ledbeater was fortunate enough in securing the persons against whom he held the warrant, before they e ff ected their purpose of confining the old gentleman. Ile immediately posted to town; , leaving Tunbridge Wens at two o'clock on Sunday morning. The old gentleman being rely . Weak and unwell, and also considerably agitated in his mind in conse quence of the gross end unwarrantable proceeding of his nephew, remained : behind, it not being considered safe that he should face the night air, and he exposed to the fatigue of a rapid journey. Ile remained is Tunbridge Wells until Monday morning, when he followed the rest of the parties to London, where he arrived in the course of the day, and immediately proceeded to his own reliance, in 'Judd-place, from whence he bad been for cibly taken three days before, Although these partin lars had but partially transpired, th e greatest possible i n . terest was excited during the day, . and the utmost anxiety was manifested to know when the examination of the prisoners would take place. L e ttheater brought. them at their own request, to a tavern nu th e neighbourhood of Bow street, in older that they might he spared the impleataautnets of e. t r o e them that the magistrates course b of e t re he ad d y ay; o i Wing lodged in a watchhouse, to th e o ffi ce, until their examination sho or time tem inw po et r irm a i ryisrisn aa li eb ta ed : uld take place. ' In th e " (C u l g ta t rles b h beforeevening, an d -- cordingly at eight o'clock ! other officer. Mrs. Grimly% accompanied 7 several female 1 so not before, am M Ca t tl e , h • her shun, the sitting magistrate,tllthe. custody .. of_ . i tedbeater and a n ... friends' had arrived a fa-- 111' gentlemen who interested sees brought solicitor, and a number of e . l'stlw ilt rd . Grin dell) exceedingly dark in his Ora nge, were also present. , ta il thin man, apparently tumid of 40. dell) is a ife has rather a l B '. '" ' 4 , o d by no means prepossessing inlislooks. Bewail dressed P'"'"' • b r own body coat, a fashion 1 in a Plain able coloured' cravat, drib _, s e and a white hat: The other prisoner (Jamey Ilun pantesom , I fa, cast of countenance, abetter looking although I • ter) is rathe r spo ke him to belong to a hum bler rank of life. When the case was about to be gone into, the prisonetGrindell seg Oested that it might be delayed a few moments, until h nuf Le pro fessional gentleman whom he -1, ad engaged should arrive. The magistrate said he should by all means wait, and a few unimportant ,matters being disposed of, Mr. Adolphus, the barrister, arrived ..shout half-past eight as the profetsional friend of the accused, and Lthe case was at once proceeded with. Mrs. Jane Gritelell WIN sworo, ro'eseeded With great clelir;• ness and precision to repeat the testimony which she gave when the prisoners Stinton and Cochran were under examination on Friday. She commenced, as she did then, by stating the circum stances under which the outrage was committed. She said, that the prisoner Hunter was the person who had dragged her into the house, and used her with the greatest roughness and barbarity, so much so, that she bore marks on her body, to whom a lady present could testify, who accompanied her to a warm bath on Saturday. Such was the resistance that she made against the attack of the conspirators, that it took the united force of the whole four, in cluding her husband, who assisted, to throw her on the carpet in the parlour, and place the handcuffs and irons on her. The poor old gentleman, she said, frequently exclaimed, against the brutal treatment she experienced, but every time he spoke, the prisoner Hunter kept showing him the strait waistcoat, which he had brought with him, as if to awe him into silence. She was for cibly dragged to the coach, she said, by her husband, Stinton,,antt Cochran. Hunter and another man, not yet in custody, were left in the house with her uncle. Mr. Mrssuuu..—Wheu you arrived at the lunatic asylum at Bethnal-green, did your husband go in with you? Mrs. Grindell—No ; he had the audacity to bia use good night, and he offered to shake me by the hand, when I was taken into the house. I have already stated my sensations on finding myself locked up with nine insane women, with one of whom I was obliged to pass the night amidst the most dreadful howlinp, and in a room the smell of which was most offensive. Mr. MtesnueL asked the lady by whose directions, and under whose authority, the outrage appeared to have been cam ruitted. Mrs. Grindell replied, that Mr. Stinton and her husband ap peared to manage the affair between them. The others seemed to act as their servants. With the exception of Hunter, who used her, she said, in a savage manner, the man Cochran and the per son not taken did not display any particular roughness towards her. Hunter said, when he first seized her, " D—n you, I said I would get you for your insulting meihis morning." My lins lrd (Mrs. Grindell continued) can do nothing without the ad vice of others, and, she was sorry to say, that those with whom he associated were persons of the worst character. When they were without a penny, she said. she and her husband lived happily together, but, now that he had got some money, and had the ex pectations of more, his conduct had sadly altered. Mr. Adolphus begged the lady to confine her remarks to the charge; general character land nothing to do with it, Mrs. Grindell—l am not addressing myself to ;cu, Sir--I ant speaking. to the tuagietrate. Mr. Adolphus—l am only cautioning y ou, Madam, no t te indulge in a. line of remark which J, as Counsel for your husband. cannot suffer to be followed. You have stated your complaint . Very circumstantially and with great clearness. Turning to the lady's solicitor, the learned gentleman wished to know if there was any other charge at present to be brought against the prisoners. Mr. Gattie said there was another charge ag ainst them, which should be gone into on another day, when the evidence would he inure complete. Mr. Adolphus, addressing the prisoners, observed, that th ey bad heard the statement of Mrs. Grindell, awl if they LI nti deliberative, any observations to make or any questions to put r ow i ng lady,gre at cl t e h a e r y n m i ght ess e o lib w era i t f io t n h , ey listened to the lady's story, and -finding that she tol d f r the as strata could not do less than hold them both to bail o . no the wit sank. The Learned Gentleman added, th a t it wag -- el t r i l l u i dell of Mall to pick a hole in such evidence as Mrs. had given. Mr. Grindell said that his hail was ready. hail which the A question then arose as to the amount os inis magistrate would require from the parties. Mr. At 1 ) wished. For lars pee it with hoped that his clients would not be required to fi nd excessive ba il, ye while Mr. Gattie contended that, as Stinton was obliged to , ‘ 1 1 ,... bail to a large amount, although he was only the agent . he was of opinion that the magi- Grindell in the busiuesa, the latter gentleman should fi nd sureties, in at least as large aeon. Mr. Minsitur.t. concurred in the propriety of this obielvisc_. tion, and directed that the prisoner Grindell should find himself in 5001:, and two sureties in 2501 . eac h, and that 0,4 ter should find bail, himself in 1001 . and two sureties in rtip each. The former offered Mr. William Cross , of No. 5' L' l 0 other rr person. Gattie the Queen-street, as one of his sureties, and the latter prop ose d bail a offered.aidlieshould u tals e th e o t n ina m e a t x o le c a o l n l si a d p er oi as eati t o o n the part of Mrs. Grindell to bind her husband to keep the°)Ptet:e ei e y ofre A towards sl,ottitifee he l r h , e a ra s ei slp h s t a d id an sh ge e r d w r b ea tt ded iever th l e te e o ff b ee ta ta in o et f t : his it isserrtys an said, that co could ldbtoenthder of the flue h av ail The Magistrate immediately said that he should bind , over Grindell accordingly. Hunter applied to be sent to the watch-house, instead removed to gaol, until of b ' ing Mr. Mrslsstute a prisoners to b iemselves of his permission to that effect. e The prisoners were then removed to the watch-house, 1/.." Ley will be confined until the bail which they offered is oecePtel POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-H(HISE.-,..yesterday Ott ease respecting Mr. Willis, jun. ,came on before the Lord Mayor. Alderman Lucas Was accidentally present, at the time. 'Elie Justice-room, ‘uld the Hall of the Atansion-houstrwere crowded during the day ; sngreat were the beat and the pressure, that Mr. Johl4 Wilkis, the com plainant in the case, was obliged to go away before the business commenced, in consequence of the delicate state of his health. Mr. Alley attended: for Mr. Wilke and Mr. Adolphus for Mr. Nerbeke mid: the gentletnen s t a t e d t o have been concerned in _ _ - - - taking violent Possession of Mr. \Yaks's house, and of having acted riotously"there.' -Mr. At.t.i.v stated that his client had withdrawn, because he was overpowered by tae heat o f tac Justice-room, which IVB.S crowded almost to suffocation. His presence, - however, was not necesel upon the occasion,' b e • (Mr. Alley) was there to re present Jim. There were; he understood, many affidavits given in, - proving that forcible en t ry , b a d been made into the pre °ll4l Of Mr' Wilk ' , and mentioning other particulars relative to the conduct pursued with reaped to that gentlemen. • An agree ment had been entered into between Mr. 'Wilke and Mr. Verbeke, that an officer should attend at the house, in order to see that no riot took place. The, charge against Mr. Verbeke cotnpreletuled riot, RS Weil as violent entrance into the premises, and detention of them. Mr. ADOLPH US, Who, as well As Mr. Alloy, was a stranger t o what bail ne2urreil at the J„ A ti ee -roan on the former day Of investigation into this ease, eXprelSed Some surprise at hearing the c harge of riot. The IAtu.MAYInt gail4 that if the ebargeoif nLu of riot , be gon e into, he should wish to h ave t h e b e nefit of Ai co-operation in deciding upon the case. Ale. Alley said, that Mr. Adolphus had anticipated him, in s it u dibg to the Charge of riot, as he ( Mr. Alley) certainly intend ed to call *TO the Lord Mayor to . bold Mr. Verbeke and his f r iends to bail, for the two»fold offence of violently entering and taking possession of Mr. Wilkes house' and of tsum n it t i ng a riot there. All Mr. Wilke desir e d, was to have peaceable posy ion of hie house, end to vindicate the injury which the public had SUffr Woad through him, by th e v i olence exw ii, od i o depriving him of his property. --e made application also to the Lord Mayoi to lance Mr. Verbeke's servant to leave the house, ,in which he had 14411 placed by his matter, At the awe time, no objection eQuI LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. f o r. thl The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 9d. 41h. Loaf—There are others who sell from a halfpen n y to t" pence halfpenny below that price. - - - ------- . PRICE OF SEEDS. , -Ocv. 2. 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On the 28th ult., at Woolwich C hurch, by the Re g b Frazer, Major'Thcnnas Alston Brandret h, of the Royal Artih‘o: to Mary, widow of the late Major Bennet, of the Royal I:olf iut erri to 0 13r n ow th i e ow 29 , th th u e lt i . tm , in the 66th year of his age, lironini° W 13° last 11:Elipsuffik.eolokf,./.:.gt;:or. joinUp the loth nlt ., 1111,:14: Williams, of the Middle Temple, Esq., and late ' of Trioity lege, Cambridge. Prkted and Pablo' Led hy YOUNG, et 0 111°14 Na. 112, Strad. saO:3aßeivinOdf the JAW Genet el I‘l4thew, and ni.plteci t